Brazil’s Integrated Frontier Protection Program, created in 2016, seized 34 tons of cocaine and 589 guns this year, as per figures surveyed up to the third quarter this year, released by the Federal Revenue Service and the president’s Institutional Security Office (GSI).
A criminal organization with operations in several Brazilian states and an annual turnover of about $860 million worth of contraband was the target of a Federal Police operation on Thursday (Jun. 16).